Shift 2050 is designed and coordinated by Antonella Battaglini, PIK Potsdam and ECF and Guido Axmann,THEMA1. Lucile Barras is Project Manager of Shift 2050.
Antonella Battaglini is a senior scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), where she leads the research focus “Innovative Stakeholder Dialogue Approaches” and works on the EU CIRCE Integrated Project - Climate Change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Environment, within the research domain “Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods”. Within PIK and the European Climate Forum (ECF) she leads the SuperSmart Grid (SSG) process, which explores investment and technology options for transition to a decarbonized economy. The SSG concept was first developed by Antonella in 2007. Since than it has obtained lots of support and interest among policy-makers, academia and industry.
Antonella Battaglini co-founded The Compensators*, a non-profit organization that makes it possible for the general public to participate in the European carbon trading system. Besides, she is a member of the Ad-Hoc Advisory Group on Energy Efficiency of the European Commission and a Faculty Member of the Senior Executive Seminar of the Programme for Industry at Cambridge University.
Ms Battaglini holds an MBA, and prior to working at PIK had ten years of national and transnational management experience in the pharmaceutical industry. She has close ties, based on years in both industry and the research community, with stakeholders from a wide section of European society.
A Graduate in medicine, Guido Axmann is Managing Director of THEMA1, an independent Berlin-based think-do-tank specialised in accelerating the transition to a low carbon society. Based on scientific work by Antonella Battaglini (PIK), THEMA1 launched the Renewables-Grid-Initiative in January 2009 to foster the dialogue between relevant stakeholders. The key goal is the full grid integration of renewables. The initiative is kindly supported by the European Climate Foundation.
At the beginning of 2008, Thema1 initiated the PCF Project Germany together with WWF, Öko-Institut and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The project brought together a number of leading businesses to measure and communicate greenhouse gas emissions of products and services. Participants include dm-drogerie markt, DSM, FRoSTA, Henkel, REWE Group, Telekom, Tchibo, the Tengelmann Group and Tetra Pak. The PCF Project Germany provides members with a platform to work together and exchange expertise in decarbonising the supply chain.
In 2004/2005 Thema1 created an alliance of partners from business, science, government and society to build awareness of dangerous atmospheric levels of particulate matter in urban areas. The synergies of the initiative led to a nationwide debate and catalysed political decisions to incentivise the retrofitting of diesel particulate filters. Other selected projects to cut carbon emissions: Green Music Initiative, PCF World Forum, Dialogue Forums Low Carbon Society
Lucile Barras is Project Manager at Thema1. Previously, she was scientific assistant at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. She was part of the German EU presidency delegation at several EU and UN conferences as an Ecologic Institute advisor to the German Ministry for Environment. She organized an international conference on climate change policy for the European Climate Forum in 2007. She holds a Master of Arts in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies of Geneva and another Master of Arts in environmental management from the Free University Berlin.